Northwest Reverb - Reflections by James Bash and others about classical music in the Pacific Northwest and beyond

Friday, April 9, 2010

Globe critic's review of Kalmar and Boston Symphony

The Boston Globe's classical music critic, Jeremy Eichler posted a brief, and mostly positive review of Kalmar in his debut with the Boston Symphony last night. Some of the reader comments are fairly spirited. A couple of readers really hated Kalmar's treatment of Mahler, but the majority thought it was very good.

Postscript: Charles Noble found a couple more reviews: one that didn't like the way Kalmar conducted and the other liked it very much. Click here for the links.

2 comments:

curtis heikkinen
said...

I thought the comments regarding the performance were quite interesting. I was particularly struck by the reader who commented that perhaps the BSO players were not as responsive as they might have been. I'm not surprised by the divergent opinions because it has always been my impression that critics and audiences have very strong feelings about how Mahler should be conducted. For example,I like Pierre Boulez in Mahler, but some critics cannot abide his performances of that composer's work.